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title: 'Tech & AI jobs in Alabama'
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# Tech & AI jobs in Alabama

> Alabama's tech economy is defined by Huntsville, one of the country's densest aerospace-and-defense hubs, home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the Army's Redstone Arsenal, and contractors like Boeing and Blue Origin. Birmingham adds a growing fintech and health-IT layer. The roles skew aerospace engineering, defense, and cybersecurity.

- **Open roles:** 137
- **Hiring companies:** 46
- **Region type:** state
- **Timezone:** America/Chicago
- **Population:** 5,110,000
- **Cost of living:** 12% below the US average, among the lowest costs of living in the country.
- **Climate:** Humid subtropical, with hot humid summers and mild winters. Huntsville's aerospace corridor sits in the cooler north.
- **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/alabama

## Cities in Alabama

- [Huntsville](https://feeny.ai/location/alabama/huntsville) — 101 jobs

## Top companies hiring in Alabama

- [Hawthorne Residential Partners](https://feeny.ai/companies/hawthorne-residential-partners) — 14 open roles
- [LG Electronics](https://feeny.ai/companies/lg-electronics) — 10 open roles
- [VSC Fire & Security](https://feeny.ai/companies/vsc-fire-security) — 8 open roles

## Top Universities

**Where Alabama's tech talent studies**

Auburn produced Apple CEO Tim Cook and Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville feeds the Redstone Arsenal aerospace corridor with engineers and NASA-track graduates. UAB in Birmingham anchors the state's growing health-and-fintech scene.

- **Auburn University** (Auburn, AL · 25,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Tim Cook, Jimmy Wales, Wonya Lucas, Octavia Spencer
- **University of Alabama** (Tuscaloosa, AL · 33,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Harper Lee, Wayne Rogers, Jim Nabors, Mark Ingram
- **University of Alabama in Huntsville** (Huntsville, AL · 8,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Jan Davis, Kathryn Thornton
- **University of Alabama at Birmingham** (Birmingham, AL · 14,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Vonetta Flowers, John Stallworth, Ruben Studdard

## FAQ

**Tech jobs in Alabama: common questions**

### How many tech jobs are open in Alabama right now?

There are about 137 open tech roles in Alabama on Feeny, spread across roughly 46 companies hiring right now. These are pulled from live company career pages, not a stale aggregator index, so a listing here is a role someone is actually trying to fill. Most of the volume clusters around Huntsville's aerospace and defense base, with a smaller software layer in Birmingham. Filter by city or role to see what fits.

### Which Alabama cities have the most tech jobs?

Huntsville is the clear leader, and by a wide margin. It sits next to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the Army's Redstone Arsenal, so aerospace, defense, and cybersecurity work concentrates there in a way few mid-size cities can match. Birmingham comes second with a growing fintech and health-IT layer. Across the 1 Alabama cities we index, those two carry almost all of the openings.

### What companies are hiring for tech roles in Alabama?

The Huntsville roster leans on aerospace and defense names: Boeing and Blue Origin both run operations near Redstone Arsenal, alongside the federal programs at Marshall Space Flight Center. That defense-contractor gravity pulls in a long tail of engineering and cybersecurity shops that support those programs. Birmingham adds a different flavor, with fintech and health-IT employers hiring software people. Feeny lists roles from about 46 companies across the state, so the current set is worth scanning directly.

### What kinds of tech roles are common in Alabama?

Aerospace and defense engineering set the tone, which is unusual for a state this size. Huntsville's proximity to Marshall and Redstone means a lot of the work carries security clearances and touches missiles, propulsion, and space systems rather than consumer apps. Cybersecurity is a natural companion to all that defense work. Birmingham's fintech and health-IT scene rounds it out with more conventional software and data roles.

### What is it like to work in tech in Alabama?

Your paycheck goes far here. Cost of living sits around 12 percent below the national average, among the lowest of any state, so a Huntsville aerospace salary buys a house that would be out of reach on either coast. The trade is that the scene is specialized: it rewards you if you want deep, serious engineering on defense and space programs, less so if you're chasing a consumer-startup buzz. For clearance-track and hard-tech careers, few places offer this much work at this cost.

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